Glove.



E. C. OSTERMANN.

GLOVE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 19'14.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

E. 'c. OSTERMANN.

GLOVE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4. 1914.

,%3@,8U4 Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

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' W Z. IW,5, I? A @waeJ/m/f i f@m EDWIN C. OSTERMANN, 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO FRIED. OSTER MANN, MEYER 00., 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, lldl 7,.

Application filed May 4, 1914. Serial No. 836,323.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN C. OsTERMANN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to gloves, especially those of heavy material, each having a one piece front outward from its wrist, said invention consisting in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim of this specification, its object being to provide gloves seamless in the front of the palm and devoid of fourchettes and forwardly protruding finger seams.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of a glove in which my invention is embodied.

Fig. 2, an elevation of a fragment of the glove partly in section, and

Figs. 3 to 6 inclusive are plan views of the various pieces or blanks completing the aforesaid glove.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, my improved glove has the entire front thereof outward from its wrist in one piece 3, and is shown as having the back of the palm, back of the forefinger and back of the little finger in one piece 4:, the backs of the middle fingers being the pieces 5 and 6, and the back of the thumb formed by the blank or piece 8.

The fronts and backs of the fingers of the gloves are stitched together direct, no fourchettes being employed in said fingers. The

seams 7 extend rearward from within the crotches between the fingers and around back of the finger-tips, whereby the front of the glove is absolutely seamless from the wrist Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

outward. The peculiar novel seaming of the glove fingers is an advantageous feature, inasmuch as there is no forward protrusion of said seaming to annoy and possibly cause injury to the wearer of the glove, while at the same time the durability of said glove is enhanced, because of the disposition of its finger-seams out of the way of frictional contact with anything gripped.

To procure the inclined extension of the seams 7, the back finger portions are taperingly enlarged toward their inner ends and the front finger portions are taperingly enlarged toward theirouter ends so that in tegral substantially triangular fourchette portions are formed.

I claim:

A seamless palm glove comprising a blank including a palm and front finger and thumb portions formed from a single piece, a second blank including a back portion and two outer finger portions formed from a single piece, individual back middle finger pieces of suflicient width to extend between the fingers at their inner ends, said inner ends being V- shaped and secured together at their forward portion and the said back por- 't'ion of the second blank being provided at its outer end with a pair of V-shaped slits for securement of the inner portion of the V-shaped ends of said back middle finger pieces, and a back piece secured to the thumb portion of the first blank and to the back portion of the, second blank to define a thumb, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN C. OSTERMANN.

Witnesses:

MILDRED GBAW, BEULAH JAMEsoN.

Commissioner of Patenta. 

